Roughly 600 higher education staff are expected to meet online today to debate and vote on an assembly motion to oppose the government’s planned controversial reforms to higher education. The online group will also call for “national industrial action as part ...

A group of higher education staff disappointed with proposed sector reforms will meet online on August 24 – the day federal parliament returns – in an act of unprotected industrial action. Called the National University Staff Assembly and organised by ...

In his Australia Day Address in 2006, John Howard said that Australia’s "dominant cultural pattern comprises Judeo-Christian ethics, the progressive spirit of the Enlightenment and the institutions and values of British political culture". The speech was controversial. Howard set out ...

I have been involved in development and implementation of e-learning systems and online courses for some years now and while there have been instances of building and delivering courses for the 'virtual campuses’, the lion's share of the work has ...

It’s an act that perhaps many of us have done without much thought – sharing something shocking, disastrous or criminal online. While some people in the community refrain from sharing such posts, Associate Professor Alyce McGovern from UNSW says the ...

University of Newcastle vice-chancellor Professor Alex Zelinsky advised staff on Tuesday that the university was unable to reach agreement with unions on salaries to help with the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic that has rocked the sector. It comes ...

Universities Australia has welcomed a review into academic freedom and freedom of expression announced by education minister Dan Tehan on Friday. Professor Sally Walker will conduct the review with the assistance of universities, focusing on their progress against former Chief ...

As Australian workers continue to suffer job instability during the COVID-19 pandemic, universities including Western Sydney University are offering displaced workers new hope through its short course programs. The university was the first to begin its delivery of 12 intensive ...

More than 1200 members of Australia’s academic community have signed an open letter to state and federal education ministers to overturn what they see as a current corporate model of university governance and return it to its traditional roots. Three ...

After years of technologists advocating for change, COVID-19 has arguably driven more involuntary change in the last six months in businesses and public sector organisations than we’ve seen in the previous ten years. And it’s no secret higher education has ...